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Facade of the convent of San Francisco. Ventura Pérez (c. 1760)
Preparations for the General Chapter of the Franciscan Order held in the convent of San Francisco de Valladolid in 1740

In 1740, the meeting of the General Chapter of the Franciscan Order took place in …

Sept. 12, 2023
Isola di Cipro. Ferrando Bertelli (Roma, 1562)
Limasol, sixth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

Limasol, sixth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588).

Sept. 10, 2023

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The black dancer Francisco Meneses (†1687)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
31-12-2021

A poetic jácara from 1687 brings us closer to the black musicians who sang and danced in the cities and towns of the Hispanic crowns during the Modern Age.

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Sebastián de Vivanco and the musical libraries

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado, Michael Noone
06-12-2021

On three separate occasions, music books were found to be missing soon after Sebastián de Vivanco left important positions: first when he exchanged the post of chapelmaster at Ávila cathedral …

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